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"Feminist Wicca emphasizes the deep interconnectedness of life and focuses on the woman's religious experience. In this book, Constance Wise explores Feminist Wicca through the lens of process thought, developing a new thealogy of feminist spirituality that can enrich and deepen religious practice. Although process thought is often portrayed as a complex and inaccessible system, Wise explains its concepts in simple language and illustrates her points with accessible examples."--Jacket.Read more...

Finding what is hidden --
Discovering the hidden in two circles --
History and anthropology : resisting historical and gender essentialism --
Epistemology and ethics : occult knowledge and moral decisions --
Cosmology and thealogy : the web, the goddess, and magic.

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In Hidden Circles in the Web, scholar and Feminist Wiccan practitioner Constance Wise explores the growing and mysterious Pagan tradition of Feminist Wicca through the lens of process thought.Read more...

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Creatively, Constance Wise discovers unexpected cogency in extraordinary religious practices. She uses process philosophy and personal narrative to unfold the richness implicit in an emerging form of American religious naturalism. -- William Dean, professor emeritus, Iliff School of Theology Process thought has played a role in the development of Christian feminist theology. Alongside those feminists who have undertaken to revise Christian teaching and reform Christian practice so as to end the exclusion of women, there are others who believe they can work to overcome the myriad tentacles of patriarchy more effectively from outside the deeply patriarchal Abrahamic traditions. Constance Wise has found her home in feminist Wicca. Now, like Carol Christ, Wise finds in the conceptuality developed in the process tradition a fruitful way of articulating the insights and experience of Wicca. -- John B.Cobb, Jr., CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY An intriguing synthesis of Goddess spirituality and process thought. -- Carol P. Christ, author of She Who ChangesRead more...